Here are seven predictions for what’s to come in season three of The Crown, including Princess Diana, a political revolution, and the one episode that’s guaranteed to be a tearjerker in light of recent events.

All three are tearjerkers aimed mainly at activating the pity reflex of well-off white liberals, and all of them, crucially, center on children and teens in order to sidestep questions of personal agency.

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